How to Be Rhythmically Creative Without Reading Music By Eric Dieter As a guitar teacher, new students are often asking me about “strum pattern.” What the student is really asking is “What is the rhythm to this song?” I’m not a fan of the term “strum pattern” because it implies that you’d just memorize a …
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Apart from the major scale, no one single scale has so many uses in jazz as the melodic minor scale. The table on the next page outlines the seven different points of view, or “modes,” of the melodic minor scale, followed by some examples of usages. The basic melodic minor scale is the same …
One of the most important skills that a guitarist can develop is to train their ear. It should go without saying that without your ears experiencing, enjoying and learning to play music would be extremely difficult. So, what is ear training and how can you improve this ability? Ear training is being able to develop …
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